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Apr 1, 2017 @ 5:18am

Character Select-Only Apollyon Bug?

Quick Note: I looked up this question and a lot of people had a different bug with Apollyon. To clarify: I am NOT referring to the bug where Apollyon is invisible during a run and dies when picking something up. This is different.

I recently unsubscribed from most of the mods I was subscribed to, because my Mods screen was too cluttered. When I reentered the game, Apollyon was gone!

Well, not fully gone. He is invisible in the title screen, along with the words Void and Apollyon, but I can select him and start a run and he works fine. What??? I tried deleting players.xml in the local files and uninstalling the game. Please help!

I am on a Mac, OS Sierra.

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OREN

Apr 1, 2017 @ 5:20am

it is a same prolem all over the world. Just 8ght

Nazemec

Apr 1, 2017 @ 5:40am

Shorter version:
Look at the date.

Short version:
There's no real problem.

Longer version:
Last year, Devs changed the Keeper sprites to look like the Old Man Keeper for April's Fools day. Old Man Keeper was a red herring for dataminers when Afterbirth came out, keeping the real Keeper a secret.
The game (probably) has a built in .xml file equivalent in its .exe to manage this menu for this specific day. Since it was created when Afterbirth+ didn't exist at all, and this file equivalent never got updated for Afterbirth+, this part of the code doesn't know what is Apollyon. Since there are no lines at all for Apollyon, the game simply don't show it in this menu, so there's an empty space.

LSDBunny

Apr 1, 2017 @ 1:29pm

Originally posted by Nazemec:
The game (probably) has a built in .xml file equivalent in its .exe to manage this menu for this specific day.

Nope. How do I know? Set your date settings to a different day, menu won't change. Go into offline mod, menu is normal again even if you're date settings are on April 1st.
This has to be some command Isaac is getting from the dev servers.
But some one forgot to patch the April 1st stuff, that's for sure. Could have done that pretty smoothly alongside the booster pack. Failed opportunities eh...

Nazemec

Apr 1, 2017 @ 2:06pm

Originally posted by Affenkombat:
Originally posted by Nazemec:
The game (probably) has a built in .xml file equivalent in its .exe to manage this menu for this specific day.

Nope. How do I know? Set your date settings to a different day, menu won't change. Go into offline mod, menu is normal again even if you're date settings are on April 1st.
This has to be some command Isaac is getting from the dev servers.
But some one forgot to patch the April 1st stuff, that's for sure. Could have done that pretty smoothly alongside the booster pack. Failed opportunities eh...

Interesting details, thanks for sharing.